Mike Drumright on baseball cards

Mike Drumright pitched for nine seasons in the minor leagues, mostly in the Tigers and Marlins organizations. His best season was 1996 when he went 6-4 with a 3.97 ERA at AA Jacksonville. Now the Manager of Artistic Marble & Granite in Wichita, KS, he kindly answered my questions about baseball cards.

- Do you have any stories about cards of yourself or of other players?  I remember the first time I signed a card contract and that experience was pretty memorable.  I was sent boxes and boxes of cards to sign with dozens of pens to sign thousands of cards.  It took several weeks and lots of pens, but I recall how badly my hand hurt and hard it was to replicate your signature that many times in a row.
- Do you have a favorite card of yourself or of another player?  Now that I am way older and have been retired, they are all my favorites.  I think my kids have enjoyed sharing that their dad has a baseball card.
- Do you collect baseball cards?  I don’t collect cards anymore and haven’t for a very long time but I used to as a young boy.  My dad helped me and my younger brother learn how to collect cards and that was something we did together for many years.  I still have all my cards stored away somewhere.

Thanks!